HIAF-BRing中极化质子加速研究

为了更深入地研究核子性质,中国科学院近代物理研究所将在强流重离子加速器装置（HIAF）上利用极化质子束开展实验。HIAF增强器BRing能够提供最大能量9.3 GeV/u的极化质子束,在加速过程中极化束流会遇到多次退极化共振,需要特殊设计才能使束流保持较高的极化度。利用退极化共振强度模拟程序DEPOL,研究了BRing加速过程中不同退极化共振对束流极化度的影响。结果表明,加速过程遇到的两种退极化共振将会使束流完全退极化;在BRing电子冷却段加入Full Siberian Snake可以使质子束在加速时保持较高的极化度。In order to explore the nucleon properties in details, the polarized proton will be used for some special experiments at HIAF project in Institute of Modern Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences (IMP,CAS). The maximum energy of 9.3 GeV/u for Polarized protons will be provided in the Booster Ring(BRing) at HIAF. The polarized beam experiences depolarizing resonances many times during acceleration process, so it's necessary to suppress those resonances to keep polarizability well by special design. In this paper, the code DEPOL is used to simulate the influence of depolarizing resonances process in BRing. According to the results, the beam's polarization has been destroyed completely by the depolarizing resonances in the acceleration process. And the Full Siberian Snake is chosen in the Electron Cooler part of BRing to preserve the beam's polarization during the acceleration, and its strength and location of the Siberian Snake are also presented here.     

Polarized proton collisions at 205 GeV at RHIC

The Brookhaven Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) has been providing collisions of polarized protons at a beam energy of 100 GeV since 2001. Equipped with two full Siberian snakes in each ring, polarization is preserved during acceleration from injection to 100 GeV. However, the intrinsic spin resonances beyond 100 GeV are about a factor of 2 stronger than those below 100 GeV making it important to examine the impact of these strong intrinsic spin resonances on polarization survival and the tolerance for vertical orbit distortions. Polarized protons were first accelerated to the record energy of 205 GeV in RHIC with a significant polarization measured at top energy in 2005. This Letter presents the results and discusses the sensitivity of the polarization survival to orbit distortions.     

On the Possibility of Acceleration of Polarized Protons in the Synchrotron Nuclotron

One of the main tasks of the NICA project is to produce colliding beams of polarized protons. It is planned to accelerate polarized protons from the source to the maximum energy in the existing proton synchrotron. We consider all depolarizing spin resonances in the Nuclotron and propose methods to overcome them.     

RHIC polarized proton status and plan

The Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider (RHIC) as the first high energy polarized proton collider has been providing collisions at a beam energy of 100 GeV since 2001. Equipped with two full Siberian snakes in each ring, polarization is preserved during the acceleration from injection to 100 GeV with careful control of the betatron tunes and the vertical orbit distortions. In the latest RHIC polarized proton run in 2006, a peak luminosity of 28 × 10³⁰cm⁻² s⁻¹ with 60% average polarization at store was achieved. During the run, RHIC also demonstrated its capability in providing a combination of polarized proton collisions with longitudinal polarization and radial polarization were provided to the STAR experiment and PHENIX experiment with the local spin rotators installed on either side of the STAR detector and PHENIX detector. Polarized protons were also first accelerated to 250 GeV at the end of RHIC 2006 run with a 46% polarization measured at this new store energy in one of the RHIC accelerators. Currently, the luminosity in RHIC is limited by the beam-beam effect. The plan is to triple the luminosity. Plans to achieve polarized proton collision at 250 GeV are also reported.     

Status of spin physics

This is a slightly updated summary of the new results which were presented at the 13^th International Symposium on High Energy Spin Physics, that was held at IHEP-Protvino during 7–12, September 1998. I subdivided the results into the topics of: spin physics history; polarized beams and Siberian snakes; polarized targets, jets and sources; nucleon structure function experiments; electro-weak spin experiments; hadronic spin experiments; spin theory; and finally future polarized beam facilities.     

Higher order spin resonances in a 2.1-GeV/c polarized proton beam

Spin resonances can depolarize or spin flip a polarized beam. We studied 1st and higher order spin resonances with stored 2.1 GeV/c vertically polarized protons. The 1st order vertical (ν(y)) resonance caused almost full spin flip, while some higher order ν(y) resonances caused partial depolarization. The 1st order horizontal (ν(x)) resonance caused almost full depolarization, while some higher order ν(x) resonances again caused partial depolarization. Moreover, a 2nd order ν(x) resonance is about as strong as some 3rd order ν(x) resonances, while some 3rd order ν(y) resonances are much stronger than a 2nd order ν(y) resonance. One thought that ν(y) spin resonances are far stronger than ν(x), and that lower order resonances are stronger than higher order; the data do not support this.     

Resonant scattering of ultracold atoms in low dimensions

Low energy scattering amplitudes for two atoms in one- and two-dimensional atomic waveguides are derived for short range isotropic and resonant interactions in high partial wave channels. Taking into account the finite width of the resonance which was neglected in previous works is shown to have important implications in the properties of the confinement induced resonances. For spin polarized fermions in quasi-1D waveguides, it imposes a strong constraint on the atomic density for achieving the Fermi Tonks Girardeau gas. For a planar waveguide, the characteristics of the 2D induced scattering resonances in p- and d-waves are determined as a function of the 3D scattering parameters and of the waveguide frequency.     

Local manipulation of nuclear spin in a semiconductor quantum well

The shaping of nuclear spin polarization profiles and the induction of nuclear resonances are demonstrated within a parabolic quantum well using an externally applied gate voltage. Voltage control of the electron and hole wave functions results in nanometer-scale sheets of polarized nuclei positioned along the growth direction of the well. Applying rf voltages across the gates induces resonant spin transitions of selected isotopes. This depolarizing effect depends strongly on the separation of electrons and holes, suggesting that a highly localized mechanism accounts for the observed behavior.     

Depolarizing differential Mueller matrices

The evolution of a polarized beam can be described by the differential formulation of Mueller calculus. The nondepolarizing differential Mueller matrices are well known. However, they only account for 7 out of the 16 independent parameters that are necessary to model a general anisotropic depolarizing medium. In this work we present the nine differential Mueller matrices for general depolarizing media, highlighting the physical implications of each of them. Group theory is applied to establish the relationship between the differential matrix and the set of transformation generators in the Minkowski space, of which Lorentz generators constitute a particular subgroup.     

Construction of “resonant” magneto-optical lattices with controlled momentum compaction factor

On the basis of the theory of “resonant” magneto-optical lattices for synchrotrons with complex transition energy developed in [1], methods for construction of such lattices with application to various accelerators are proposed. Apart from allowing elimination of transition energy crossing by accelerated particles, these lattices should meet a number of important requirements. In particular, they must have dispersion-free straight sections intended for accommodation of RF cavities, Siberian snakes and detectors, and a large enough dynamic aperture for minimizing the effect of magnetic optics nonlinearity on the beam parameters after chromaticity correction by sextupoles.     

Experiments with longitudinally polarized electrons in a storage ring using a siberian snake

We report on first measurements with polarized electrons stored in a medium-energy ring and with a polarized internal target. Polarized electrons were injected at 442 MeV (653 MeV), and a partial (full) Siberian snake was employed to preserve the polarization. Longitudinal polarization at the interaction point and polarization lifetime of the stored electrons were determined with laser backscattering. Spin observables were measured for electrodisintegration of polarized 3He, with simultaneous detection of scattered electrons, protons, neutrons, deuterons, and 3He nuclei, over a large phase space.     

The spectral function of the rho meson in nuclear matter

We calculate the modification of a rho meson in nuclear matter through its coupling to resonance-hole states. Starting from a recently proposed model, we include all four star resonances up to 1.9 GeV. In contrast to previous works, we include not only resonances that couple to the rho in a relative p-wave, but also those that couple to an s-wave state. In addition, we solve the equation for the rho spectral function self-consistently. We find that s-wave resonances affect the in medium spectral function of the rho strongly. In the transverse channel the rho meson is, especially at non-zero momentum, completely washed out and can in the presence of nuclear matter no longer be viewed as a resonant excitation of the vacuum. Instead, our model shows a continuum of possible excitations with the quantum numbers of a transversely polarized rho. In the longitudinal channel, however, the rho retains its resonant character in our calculation. As a consequence of the self-consistent treatment we also find a strong enhancement of the widths of the included nucleon resonances in medium.     

Depolarization of light in the pulse transmission through the medium with large inhomogeneities

A theoretical approach to the calculation of the time profile of the degree of polarization in an ultrashort pulse of polarized light is developed in the approximation of the basic polarization modes. It is demonstrated that the degree of polarization of linearly polarized light differs from zero at the initial time interval that is on the order of transport mean free time. In the medium with large inhomogeneities, the circular polarization exhibits slower decay on the time scale that is on the order of the interval between depolarizing collisions. The results are in agreement with the results of numerical calculations and experiments.     

Long-range correlations of the polarized-light intensity in disordered samples

The spatial correlation function of intensity fluctuations in a speckle formed by polarized light multiply scattered in a disordered sample has been calculated. The dependence of the long-range spatial correlations on the polarization state of incident light and the depolarizing properties of the medium has been determined for the cases of transmission and reflection.     

Spin-wave resonance in multilayer FeNiP/Pd films

Ferromagnetic and spin wave resonances are studied in FeNiP/Pd multilayer films obtained via chemical vapor deposition. The partial exchange interaction constant of polarized Pd films is found to be A _Pd ≈ 1 × 10^?7 erg/cm.     

Polarization of the light output from a weakly birefringent solid state laser

The output from a zero-degree ruby laser is shown to be fully elliptically polarized. Using a matrix formalism the eigenmodes of a Perot-Fabry cavity containing a partial polarizer and a weakly anisotropic medium are shown to be elliptically polarized.     

Polarized proton beam acceleration at the Nuclotron with the use of the solenoid Siberian Snake

The possibility of polarized protons acceleration up to 6 GeV at the Nuclotron is analyzed. Proton beam acceleration by application of full and partial Siberian Snakes are considered. Compensation of the betatron coupling introduced by the solenoids is done by a compact insert of quadrupoles with a certain symmetry of their tilt angles around the orbit direction. Such a scheme has a shorter total length of the quadrupoles than the known compensation schemes. The Snakes installed within one, 3.2 m long, or two, 2 × 3.2 m long, straight sections of the Nuclotron lattice are considered.     

Relativistic neutron fireball from a supernova explosion as a possible source of chiral effect. The role of bremsstrahlung photons

We develop the idea, proposed earlier, of a possible role of neutrons, released in a supernova (SN) explosion, as a source of polarized electrons that cause chiral asymmetry of organic molecules in interstellar gas-dust clouds. The neutrons are carried away from the dense SN shell by a relativistic neutron fireball with Lorentz factor γ of order 100. At the early stage of this carrying away, the ejected polarized electrons generate circularly polarized photons as a result of bremsstrahlung in the fireball plasma. The photons of energy near 5 eV in the ultraviolet part of the spectrum show a high efficiency of the chiral effect. In the favorable case of low absorption in the interstellar medium this mechanism may appear to be more (by two orders of magnitude) efficient than the chiral effect of the polarized electrons from the same fireball.     

Spins of low-energy neutron resonances in 235U

The spins of 15 resonances in the ²³⁵U slow neutron cross section lying in the neutron energy range between 0.1 and 15 eV were determined by measuring the transmission of polarized monoenergetic neutrons through a target in which the ²³⁵U nuclei were polarized. The magnetic moment of ²³⁵U is concluded to be negative.     

Photoluminescence polarization of semiconductor nanocrystals

We review the polarization properties of photoluminescence (PL) in nanocrystals (NCs) from both theoretical and experimental points of view. We show that, under linearly polarized excitation, NCs emit partly polarized light owing to their uniaxial structure or their anisotropic shape. In elongated NCs, the anisotropy may have two origins, the electronic confinement or the effect of depolarizing field created by the light-induced charges on the interfaces. Results of polarization studies in porous silicon are presented. They are explained by the shape of the Si NCs. Experiments in CdSe NCs reveal the fine structure of the excitonic levels and show evidence of the enhancement of the electron-hole exchange energy with decreasing NC size. Spin orientation in wurtzite-type NCs is achieved by optical pumping with circularly polarized light. The effect of a magnetic field on the degree of circular polarization and the mechanisms of spin relaxation are discussed. Results in large-size NCs are presented.